Street closing

Street closing

Youngstown

North Chestnut Street, also known as Symphony Place, between Commerce and Federal streets will be closed from 2 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday for the 25th anniversary Easy Street Productions event.

Woman charged

Boardman

A township woman is charged with robbery, receiving stolen property and possession of drug paraphernalia, accused of taking items from a store and then striking a security officer with her vehicle.

Michelle O’Donahue, 39, of Locust Avenue, is to appear in Mahoning County Court here today.

A security officer at Giant Eagle on Doral Drive told police that he saw O’Donahue conceal items in a shopping bag Saturday afternoon and try to leave without paying for them.

He followed her to her car and tried to get her to come back inside the store. She refused, the security officer told police, and got into her car. He stepped in front of her car and the vehicle struck his knee.

Police found two suspected crack pipes in O’Donahue’s vehicle, according to a police report.

Kids sickened

YOUNGSTOWN

Three sick children and a high carbon-monoxide reading caused a scare this weekend at a South Side residence.

Firefighters arriving at 337 E. Lucius Ave. at 3:47 p.m. Saturday found the occupants, Sherell Echols, her 13-year-old son, and daughters, age 8 and 15, standing in their yard and preparing to depart for Akron Children’s Hospital.

Even with the windows and both doors open, firefighters recorded 20 parts per million of carbon monoxide in the house 10 minutes after their arrival. They shut the furnace off and told Echols to take the children to the hospital, call her landlord and keep the furnace off.

“The furnace was very old, and the front coal chute was screwed shut,” Fire Battalion Chief Ronald Russo reported.

Echols told firefighters she noticed black soot on her walls and ceiling and in the furnace area.

Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, highly toxic gas that is produced by incomplete combustion. Average levels in homes without gas stoves are between 0.5 and 5 parts per million, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Woman robbed

WARREN

A 37-year-old Myrtle Street, Champion Township, woman reported being robbed and assaulted by four males on North Park Avenue near the Circle K Store at 5:30 a.m. Sunday.

The males took $47 in cash and a cellphone and caused an unspecified minor injury for which she was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

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